Site Traffic Analysis
Below are the monthly site statistics according to AWStats:
So there were 45,051 unique visitors in January 2008 which was a dramatic improvement from December 2007 which only brought 1,246 unique visitors. So the total traffic has grown 3600% this past month!
The average time spent on the site was 421 seconds. Damn 1 second less and we’d be right at an average of 420 seconds, so next month everyone has to try and spend 1 second less on this site per visit to achieve this goal. Just kidding!
The busiest day was January 12th which brought a total of 7218 visits. The slowest day was January 1st which only saw 112 visits. The monthly average was 1706.84 visits per day.
Below is my Alexa Graph:
I don’t understand the drop at the end of the graph. January 28th brought 1260 visits, January 29th brought 1108 visitors, January 30th brough 1076 visitors, and January 31st brought 1091 visitors. So how can a gradual reduction of 169 visitors across this 4 day period account for such a significant drop on the graph above?
Traffic Break Down
34.1 % - Direct Address/Bookmarks
63.9% - Search Engine (Stumbleupon, Google, Digg, MySpace, Yahoo!, AOL, MSN)*
1.8% - External Links (from a total of 2617 external links)
* The social networking sites StumbleUpon, Digg, and MySpace accounted for 95% of the search engine traffic.
SiteHoppin brought the most traffic to my site as a private blog with 105 distinct visitors. I will have to hook him up sometime soon.
Below are the keyphrases that brought the most people to my site:
Site Earnings
Contextual Ads - Clicks from Google Adsense, Rubicon Project, Kontera - $174.62
Affiliates Ads - Product/Service Sales Commissions, Credit Cards Signups, Email Captures, Form Signups, etc - $248.41
Total Revenue = $423.03
This is not enough to make a living, not enough to pay the mortgage, but it is enough for a monthly car payment. If you consider the time spent on the site being average of 2 hours a day for 31 days, that’s a total of 61 hours of work, so it’s like getting paid $6.93 an hour which is not great. But you need to examine the potential growth of the site as a whole. Last month I made around $40 on the site, total so this month alone I have increased the revenue tenfold. People say that this income is passive, however building, maintaining, and promoting a site like this takes alot of time!
I recently found out that I can make much more money with much less work setting up arbitrage sites and running affiliate ads on MySpace and Facebook. These blog sites are just not very time/effort efficient for generating revenue.
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You are right in the expected range in terms of revenue for a site like this.
40,000 unique visitors usually means ~$400.00.
I know for every 100,000 visitors I can expect to make $1000. My site had 1.3 million visitors in January so I made around $14-15K. I will have the exact number this weekend.
I wouldn’t give Alexa much merrit it only counts visitors that hit the site who have the alexa toolbar installed and many people don’t.
Congrats! Impressive #’s!
I’m not surprized Fake ID is a big Search term down yer way* I find it completely Insane that the Drinking Laws in America (of all places) are 21* No probs sending young Men + Women to Fight for their Country but have a Beer in a Bar Hell No!
you can make more money by taking advantage of advertising on digg and stumble as well as myspace and facebook.